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You know the SF Bay Area is one of the wealthiest areas of the country? Does the nation owe the people there anything other than emergency services should this event happen? You know the sympathy card will be played on behalf of everyone’s favorite city. If Trump is in office do you think he will have the balls to say go help yourself? California is deep blue. What did the Kenyan do for Texas when they had their fires and floods?

The SF Bay Area will do fine in recovering. The 1906 earthquake devastated the entire Bay Area and it led to a massive rebuilding effort that revitalized the area. Same thing in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake; lots of rebuilding led to revitalized towns and infrastructure. Freeways were torn down and rebuilt (left down in SF), neighborhoods were improved and the economy hummed.

We're overdue for an earthquake along the Hayward fault, which runs directly under heavily populated cities, particularly under schools, colleges and hospitals (unlike Loma Prieta centered in sparsely populated hills). There will be deaths and suffering, but the rebuilding will happen and the area will thrive. Disasters do not keep Americans down, politicians do.